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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I promise I'm not a paranoid still wearing masks, but can the folks saying no say why? At this point, why isn't it any different from getting the flu shot?[/quote]

My teens don't get a flu shot either.

Honestly, we have no idea what the long term effects of yearly shots (like flu shots and Covid shots) will have.  So, we pass.

My teens are fully vaccinated otherwise, so I'm not an anti-vaxxer.  Just don't see enough benefit to warrant yearly flu/Covid shots.  [/quote]

We also have no idea what the long terms effects of yearly covid infections are.  Seems like it’s looking bad for lots of people from what little data we have.[/quote]

Well, since annual boosters don't prevent anyone from getting infected, you are just adding an avoidable uncertainty to an unavoidable one.[/quote]

I mean, you don’t know that either.  I can easily imagine severity of illness playing in a role in long term outcomes, can’t you?  If Covid is damaging vital organs I would think the less severe the infection, and the quicker you’re able to fight it off, the less chance for severe or lasting damage.

But I don’t know.  Neither do you.[/quote]

The issue is not whether more severe illness is more likely to cause damage (it certainly is), but whether annual boosters lessen the severity of someone's illness, when that person has already had Covid, and in many cases prior vaccinations. We DO know that there is no evidence for that, because it was never properly studied. We also know that Paul Offit, who is a highly credentialed vaccine expert, declined an updated booster for himself at age 73, because he thought that all it would do is give him a few short months of lower risk of reinfection, but contribute nothing to his already strong T-cell immunity.

Based on the comments here, some of you must think that Paul Offit is an anti-vaxxer. LOL.[/quote]

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